42 AMIAS ANDROS AND 



vide and furnish the bearer hereof, Amos Andrews Esq. 

 (being employed on His Majesty's Special Service) Avith two 

 horses and a sufficient guide from stage to stage to Oxford 

 and Likewise back again to my Quarters. Hereof fayle not 

 att yo r perill. Given att Dartmouth under my hand aud 

 seale att Amies, the 2nd of November, Anno Dm 1643." 



During this year, the people of Guernsey — Calvinistic 

 and puritanic both by training and disposition, and nearly 

 ruined by the compulsory billetting of English garrisons upon 

 them by the Stuart kings — took the side of Cromwell, while 

 Jersey, under the despotic rule of the de Carterets, and the 

 English troops in Castle Cornet under the Governor, remained 

 faithful to the King. Those unfortunate troops must have been 

 in a worse plight than any other of Charles's loyal subjects ; in 

 danger both from the attacks of the Island, and the assaults 

 of Cromwell's ships, as well as suffering from the ever present 

 anxiety and pressure of famine. Yet here we find Amias 

 Andros enduring the terrible monotony of a long siege while 

 within tantalising proximity to his own Manor House. 



In 1646, Charles II., then Prince of Wales, with his 

 brother the Duke of York, had fled to Jersey for safety and 

 were living there under the protection of Sir George Carteret, 

 Amias Andros's friend and kinsman. It is evideut that 

 Amias had intimated that he would prefer to be in the peace 

 and plenty of a Court in Jersey than starving in a beleaguered 

 fortress, for Charles wrote him the following letter from that 

 Island : — 



(!) " After our heartie commendacons. We have received so many 

 testimonies by Sir George Carteret and Sir Tho. Fanshawe and other- 

 way es of yo r affecc°n to ye service of Our Roy all Father and yo r suffer- 

 ings for that affe c on in ye Island of Garnsey and yo r good service in 

 the Castle there since ye revolt of ye Island, that we cannot but let you 

 know ye Princely sence wc have of it, assureing you that we shall 

 remember ye same to yo r advantage. We desire that for ye present you 

 will not thinke of leaving of that Place, but assist S r Baldwin Wake in 

 ye disposing of ye officers and souldiers to such a cheerful performance 

 of their duties that we may have as much cause to thanke them for 

 their future service as we have for their past 'sufferings. And if after 

 all things are well settled there you shall desire to come hither to Ys 

 for a tyme, we shall willingly consent to it, in ye meane tyme we de sire 

 to receive advice from you whether you conceive yt- without any addicon 

 and attempt by force, a Declaration from Ys of Grace and Favour to 

 that Island, may have any influence on them towards ye reducing of 

 them to their loyalty, and if so by what way the same shall be attempted, 

 so not doubting of ye continuance of y r Care and affecons, We bid yon 

 heartily Farewell. 



Given at oiu- Court in ye Island of Jarsey, 



Ye 4th of May 1646. Charles P. 



(1) Guille MSS. 



